Mr Davies said: “During February we were experiencing very high numbers of patients coming into A&E as did all trusts across the country.

Dr Mark Davies, clinical lead of A&E at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust

“We have excellent relations with YAS and work closely with them to ensure our patients are looked after safely and receive the very best care from us all working together once they arrive at A&E.”

Mr Davies repeated his appeal for people to only use the A&Es for genuine emergencies.

He said: “As, with the whole of the NHS we have seen unprecedented demand for A&E care. At busy times we have to prioritise those patients who are sickest or most in need and on some occasions this means that less seriously injured patients have to wait a little bit longer.

“We would take this opportunity to ask members of the public to consider other alternative healthcare options such as pharmacies, GPs and the NHS 111 service whenever it may be possible.”

Nationally, performance on ambulance calls, A&E waiting times, referral to treatment times and delayed transfers of care were all at their lowest levels since figures began being recorded in March, according to NHS England, as the service saw record levels of demand from patients.

Just two-thirds of red one ambulance calls were responded to within eight minutes in March, the 10th month in a row in which the standard of 75% has not been met.

In A&Es, just 87.3% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival.